Announcement: 2010 Australian Development Research Awards Systematic Review Call will be opening soon
2010 is the fourth year of AusAID's Australian Development Research Awards. This year AusAID is partnering with the UK Department of International Development (DFID) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) in calling for systematic reviews of evidence addressing key development questions.
As the amount of new development research available is growing rapidly, consolidated but robust evidence that can be more readily applied to decision making in both developing countries and donor agencies is in high demand.
Systematic reviews are an important way of ensuring that evidence can better inform policy.
Systematic reviews use explicit and rigorous methods to identify the range of research relevant to a particular question and critically appraise it. They then synthesize the research in a systematic and unbiased way presenting what can be reliably said from the evidence and go on to communicate it in a form easily used to inform policy and practice.
More information is available from the 3ie website. As soon as the call is open this will be updated to provide access to the application forms, questions and supporting material.